Posted on 08/10/2018 5:37:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The air pollution in Paris is so bad that visiting the city for a long weekend means you have as good as smoked two cigarettes and those living in the city smoke the equivalent of 183 a year, a new study reveals. [ ]
When air pollution is bad, we are told to avoid eating or exercising outside, Transport & Environments Jens Müller said. But walking around cities and eating on restaurant terraces is what city breaks are all about. Right now, tourists, including kids, are more or less forced to smoke, in terms of the health impacts.
However, the French capital fares slightly better than London, where a similar stay amounts to puffing 2.75 cigarettes. Istanbul and Prague are the worst of this air pollution top ten, with a four-day stay in these cities equivalent of smoking one cigarette a day. In Milan the number is 3, followed by Amsterdam and Vienna, which are the same as Paris. Air quality measured best are Barcelona and Dublin with 1.
The groups research was based on research that measures PM2.5 particles, the most commonly-measured form of air pollution, which are particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrometers or less.
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The average Parisian probably smokes 183 cigarettes a week.
It may be poor air quality....but it’s not a pack-a-day of Chesterfield Kings.
As frenchies smoke and then die from lung cancer, it’ll be easier for the invaders to take over.
My late father smoked those. And his brother smoked English Ovals.
Unless the Muzzies smoke even more.
Even if they do, their replacement is higher.
I was going thru the Paris Airport on change of station move and bought a pack of French cig’s. OMG!! Never again! If you smoked 183 of those your lungs should look like they were BBQ’d.
“Paris pollution: ‘Like smoking 183 cigarettes a year’”
Oh the humanity!
A pack of Gitanes, a bottle of wine, a block of cheese and a
REAL woman... a French woman.
Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.
Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.
Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.
Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.
But, on the serious side, Parisians' notorious "l'odeur corporelle" (body odor) might seem to call for 183 showers per month (or so).
Yea, but smoking just one cig will shorten your life by 12 years. Just seeing someone smoke a cig will shorten your life 6 years. At least that's what they say.
In pulmonology terms, if you smoke a pack a day for a year, that’s a “pack year”. Two packs a day in a year would be two pack-years.
After 30 pack-years of damage there is a measurable difference in pulmonary function (forced expiratory volume or FEV) in old age that is unrecoverable.
183 cigs a year, or just over 9 packs, will not have any measurable impact. It would take 1216 years of living in Paris to get measurable damage.
My brother smoked pack a day since age 23, and lived to age 83, and died of a heart attack from gaining too much weight. No lung cancer.
Wonder how MJs that would equal?
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